Is prostitution really the world's oldest profession?

[Random Variable]

It's probably the world's oldest female profession, but I would think that fisherman is an older profession.

 

[sao123]

Originally posted by: Random Variable
It's probably the world's oldest female profession, but I would think that fisherman is an older profession.

Sheep herding?

 

[nonameo]

I don't think so. Hunting might be though.

 

[Anubis]

we were hunter/gatherers before we were fishermen

 

[krunchykrome]

Originally posted by: Random Variable
It's probably the world's oldest female profession, but I would think that fisherman is an older profession.

i would say soilder...?

 

[aircooled]

It's the only thing you can give away for free but not charge for.

 

[Pastore]

Originally posted by: Anubis
we were hunter/gatherers before we were fishermen

What if you believe we evolved from fish? Wouldn't a fish be considered a fisherman?

 

[oznerol]

Profession implies payment. Fisherman as a profession would be someone caught fish and traded them in exchange for something. Otherwise it is not a profession, it is survival.

Women have been trading sex for food/shelter since the dawn of man.

 

[Random Variable]

Originally posted by: Anubis
we were hunter/gatherers before we were fishermen

yeah, but we were hunting/gathering for ourselves and our families

 

[mugs]

Originally posted by: ducci
Profession implies payment. Fisherman as a profession would be someone caught fish and traded them in exchange for something. Otherwise it is not a profession, it is survival.

Women have been trading sex for food/shelter since the dawn of man.

This

 

[Saint Michael]

Hunting isn't a profession unless you are selling or bartering your goods. The same with prostitution. I think prostitution being the oldest profession is based on the concept that goods-for-sex are the earliest known examples of bartering. But to suggest that making such transactions every once in a while makes you a "professional" is a bit of a stretch.

 

[JS80]

Originally posted by: ducci
Profession implies payment. Fisherman as a profession would be someone caught fish and traded them in exchange for something. Otherwise it is not a profession, it is survival.

Women have been trading sex for food/shelter since the dawn of man.

aka marriage?

 

[911paramedic]

Timeshare sales, and you can quote me on that.

 

[oddyager]

I'd imagine we were exchanging furs/food before we started bartering women.

 

[oznerol]

Originally posted by: oddyager
I'd imagine we were exchanging furs/food before we started bartering women.

No one is saying a pimp is the oldest profession.

 

[sao123]

Originally posted by: mugs

Originally posted by: ducci
Profession implies payment. Fisherman as a profession would be someone caught fish and traded them in exchange for something. Otherwise it is not a profession, it is survival.

Women have been trading sex for food/shelter since the dawn of man.

This

not this.

Apparently you havent watched Ali Larter in Homo Erectus

why exchange anything for sex?... Just club them.

 

[oznerol]

Originally posted by: sao123

Originally posted by: mugs

Originally posted by: ducci
Profession implies payment. Fisherman as a profession would be someone caught fish and traded them in exchange for something. Otherwise it is not a profession, it is survival.

Women have been trading sex for food/shelter since the dawn of man.

This

not this.

Apparently you havent watched Ali Larter in Homo Erectus

why exchange anything for sex?... Just club them.

So maybe rapist is the oldest profession?

 

[sao123]

Originally posted by: ducci

Originally posted by: sao123

Originally posted by: mugs

Originally posted by: ducci
Profession implies payment. Fisherman as a profession would be someone caught fish and traded them in exchange for something. Otherwise it is not a profession, it is survival.

Women have been trading sex for food/shelter since the dawn of man.

This

not this.

Apparently you havent watched Ali Larter in Homo Erectus

why exchange anything for sex?... Just club them.

So maybe rapist is the oldest profession?

Profession implies getting paid... how about slave?

 

[BeauJangles]

Thief

 

[Foxery]

I'd imagine farmer/butcher would have to happen first.

If you believe sex was the first job worth money, then what did they spend that money on?

 

[Braznor]

I seen a science documentary where a female gorilla (or chimpanzee?) has sex with a male one in exchange for some bamboo. So its definitely the oldest of all professions.

 

[puffff]

Originally posted by: Random Variable
It's probably the world's oldest female profession, but I would think that fisherman is an older profession.

i'm sure sex was being traded way before man discovered how to fish, hunt, farm, etc.

 

[GooeyGUI]

Originally posted by: puffff

Originally posted by: Random Variable
It's probably the world's oldest female profession, but I would think that fisherman is an older profession.

i'm sure sex was being traded way before man discovered how to fish, hunt, farm, etc.

It's called the stone age.

Betty Rubble was such a hot babe.

 

[Demon-Xanth]

Originally posted by: sao123

Originally posted by: Random Variable
It's probably the world's oldest female profession, but I would think that fisherman is an older profession.

Sheep herding?

Wouldn't that be pimping?

 

[SphinxnihpS]

Originally posted by: ducci
Profession implies payment. Fisherman as a profession would be someone caught fish and traded them in exchange for something. Otherwise it is not a profession, it is survival.

Women have been trading sex for food/shelter since the dawn of man.